Towel-pin.



TOWEL PIN. v APPLICATION FILED APB. 3, 1908.

Patented Oct. 13,1908.

Witnesses l am 7%@ A ttomeys.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEELOE.

CHARLES NELSON, OF NEw YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOE To TEE S. STERNAU & COMPANY,

A or NEW YORK, N.l Y., A oOrAETNERSHIr.

TOWEL-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1908.

Application sled April s, i908. serial No. 424,917.

-To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES NELSON, a subject of the King of Sweden, andV a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Towel-Pin, of which the following'is a specification.

The object I have in view is the production of ,a pin for use in supporting towels and analogous purposes, such pin being ornamental, cheap to manufacture, and strong and durable. These and further obj ects will appear from the accompanying drawings and the following specification, considered together or separately.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of one embodiment of my invention illustrating a towel pin se cured in position to its support. F ig. 2 is a top plan view of the towel pin illustrated vin Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofthe same; and Fig. l is a bottom` view'of the saine.

In all of the views like parts are designated by the same reference characters.

In carrying out my invention I produce a towel pin made of a single piece of sheet metal, formed to shape by a spinning operation. The pin comprises a base 1, a shank 2, and an enlarged spherical head 3. Near the base of the shank 2 is an enlargelnent 4l.

The edge of the base 1 is provided with a flange 5. openings 6 for the introduction of screws 7 The screws illustrated are fiat-head wood screws which lie within countersink cups 8 formed in the base 1. The heads of the screws are flush with the base, as shown. The walls of the countersinkcups 8 are inclined so that they lie parallel with the sides of the head of the Screw, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4C. The length of the cups is substantially the same as the depth of the flange 5, so that when the pin rests against the base 9 they will serve as a rigid support for preventing distortion of the base 1, bym the drawing-in of the screws. i

For the purpose of reducing expense an also to lnake the device light, it is made preferably of sheet metal of as slnall a gage as is possible to work by the spinning operation. This metal is not strong enough ordinarily to resist the drawing-in action of a screw powerful enough to` sustain the pin in In the base are lnade one or more position when, subjected to the weight of towels and other things hung upon it. By providing the cups and making them of such a depth that they will bear against the base 9-when the edges of the flange 5 also engage with the base, a rigid support is produced and the base will not be distorted by the drawing-in action of the screws. These countersinkA cups also serve the additional purpose ofallowing flat-headed screws to be used and permitting them to be entirely countersunk within the base, so that the head of the screw is flush with the base.

So 'far as I know, 'I am the first to produce a towel pin formed of a single piece of sheet metal spun to shape and with a spherical head 3 on its periphery. This head not only serves as a means for ornamenting the pin, but it avoids the sharp point ordinarily found upon towel pins, and therefore serves as a `protection to prevent injury lto the persons who may accidentally come in Contact with the end of the pin. An enlarged head also serves the purpose of a flange for preventing the towels or other articles supported upon the pill from becoming disengaged from the pin. The enlargement et serves the purpose Vof keeping towels hung upon the pln froln coming in contact with the base.

My invention can be used. in connection with pins of all sorts and in other analogous articles. The feature of the countersinks in the base may also be used upon any objectsA ciple of my invention, together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof, but I desire to have it understood that the apparatus shown is merely illustrative, and that the invention can be carried out in other ways.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A towel pin formed of sheet lnetal and having a base, a flange thereon, screw holes and countelsink cups for the screw holes, the depth of the cups being equal to the depth of the flange.

2. A towel pin formed of sheet metal and having a base, screw holes therein, and countersink cups for the screw holes, which are engaged With the support when the pin is se# depth of the eountersnk cups being eqn :1l to cured thereto, the greater part of the base bethe depth of the flange. 10 ing held at a distance from the support This specification signed and witnessed.

equal to the depth of the cups. this 31st day of Wrfeln-1908.

' 3. A towel pin formed of sheet metal, l CHARLES NELSON.

spun to shape, With an enlarged spherical Witnesses: head, a flanged base, screw holes in the base7 LEONARD H. Dylan,

and eountersnk cups for the screw holes, the JOHN L. Lo'rson. 

